ANA and IHG Launch Loyalty Partnership with Status Match and Double Dipping

All Nippon Airways (ANA) and IHG Hotels & Resorts announced on April 22 that they have entered into a loyalty partnership. Starting from October, they will gradually introduce services for ANA Mileage Club (AMC) members and IHG One Rewards members, including status matching and the ability to earn both miles and points on the same transaction.

The new benefits fall into three main categories. First is “Status Match,” which grants IHG One Rewards status to AMC status members. Second is “Double Dipping,” which allows members to earn IHG One Rewards points in addition to ANA miles when flying on ANA-operated international flights on itineraries originating outside Japan that carry an ANA flight number. Third is mutual conversion between ANA miles and IHG One Rewards points. While exchanging IHG points into ANA miles has already been possible, members will newly be able to convert ANA miles into IHG points as well. Further details will be announced in due course.

As an example under the status match program, ANA Diamond +More members will be granted 68 IHG Elite Qualifying Nights, which count toward IHG elite status qualification. By staying an additional 2 nights, they will be matched to IHG Diamond status and gain access to choose 8 Milestone Rewards. In addition, ANA Diamond members will receive 38 qualifying nights, ANA Platinum members 20 nights, and ANA Bronze members 10 nights.

ANA positions this new partnership as a step toward a more strategic phase in the relationship it has built with IHG over roughly 20 years. In the ANA Group’s medium-term management strategy, the international passenger business is defined as a core driver of growth. At a press event held in Tokyo, Keiji Omae, Member of the Board and Senior Executive Vice President of ANA, explained, “Strengthening collaboration with IHG, which has a global footprint, is an essential measure for establishing our presence in overseas markets.”